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universe13 books1995

Fantasy, adventurous in tone, about coming of age.

“In a world like ours and unlike it, every human soul walks outside the body in the shape of an animal — a daemon, who speaks, who cannot be lied to, and who settles into one fixed form only when childhood ends.”
from the catalogue

Start with Northern Lights →

includes His Dark Materials, The Book of Dust

CoralineSeries

series2 books2002

Fantasy and portal fantasy, eerie in tone.

“The Guardian ranked Coraline #82 in its list of 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.”
from the catalogue

Start with Coraline →

ChrestomanciSeries

series12 books1977

completed

Fantasy, whimsical in tone, set in british isles.

“Greenwillow Books published a US edition within the calendar year.”
from the catalogue

Start with Charmed Life →

TalismanSeries

series4 books1984

Fantasy and portal fantasy, set in north america.

“Stephen King and Peter Straub's The Talisman follows twelve-year-old Jack Sawyer as he crosses between our world and the Territories, a parallel realm, on a cross-country quest to save his dying mother.”
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Start with The Talisman →

InsomniaNovel

Stephen Kingstandalone novel1994

Horror, about madness and grief and loss, set in north america.

PiranesiNovel

Susanna Clarkestandalone novel2020

Fantasy, about amnesia and identity, set in otherworld.

“A man lives in a huge isolated labyrinthine building partially submerged in an ocean, together with another man and 13 skeletons, which is the only world he recalls.”
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